NAZI GENOCIDE And the different groups of the

NAZI GENOCIDE And the different groups of the Holocaust

AGENDA q Who was Hitler q World War 2 q Genocide q Victims of the Holocaust

ADOLPH HITLER • Born April 20 th 1889 in Braunau, Austria. • He ruled Germany as the Fuhrer from 1934 to 1945. • An estimated 15 million people died in the concentration camps. • Died April 20 th 1945 Berlin, Germany.

• SEPTEMBER 1 ST 1939 TO SEPTEMBER 2 ND 1945 ALLIED FORCES VS AXIS FORCES NUMBER OF CASUALTIES WAS ESTIMATED AT AROUND 70 MILLION.

AXIS OF POWER Germany: Adolph Hitler Japan: Italy: Mussolini Others: Hungarian, Bulgaria, and Romania

ALLIED FORCES America: Franklyn D Roosevelt Brittan: Winston Churchill USSR: Joseph Stalin Other: Australia, Canada, France, Brazil and just about the rest of the world.

GENOCIDE BY DEFINITION The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

RALPH LEMKIN Ø Raphael Lemkin first termed the word Genocide. Ø Lemkin was a Polish lawyer that fled Poland in 1939 to escape the Nazis. Ø Lemkin lost 49 family members in the Holocaust. Ø After World War 2 Lemkin spoke out to the International community to create laws outlawing future genocides.

POLISH o Complicit in the holocaust o Jewish polish where complicit o Millions of non Jewish polish

ROMANI GYPSIES q Also known as Roma or Sinti q They where nomads and didn’t really have their own nation q 200, 000 to an estimated 500, 000 q They where persecuted long before the war by the previous regime. q Almost to extinction

RUSSIANS v Russian POW v Sent to Concentration camps v 3 Million plus dead

NON JEWISH HOLOCAUST CASUALTIES • Hungarian • Czechoslovakian • French • German • Ukrainian • Black • Gay • Jehovah Witness • Many others

REFERENCES ü Intro to Humanities ü https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/World_War_II ü https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_toll ü http: //www. holocaust-education. dk/holocaust/sigojnerne. asp ü https: //fcit. usf. edu/holocaust/timeline/resist. htm ü https: //www. jewishvirtuallibrary. org/jsource/Holocaust/Non. Jewish. Victims. html